Samuel Rutherford Quotes

Whatever we have of this world in our hands, our care must be to keep it out of our hearts, lest it come between us and Christ.

And that is the secret of this world. If you remove love of dunya from your heart, the dunya is yours for the taking. You can have the dunya because it's in your hand and not in your heart

Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day.

As a man grows and increases in the things of this world, if he is not careful, he will lose the Spirit of the Lord, and he will set his heart upon the things of this world.

Riches and the things that are necessary in life are not evil in themselves. And all of us face cares and troubles in this life. The sin comes in the time and energy we spend in pursuing these things, at the expense of neglecting Christ.

If you would bee at ease, all the world is not.

Now the heart is so full that a drop overfills it; We are happy now because God wills it.

Don't be swayed by the false values and goals of this world, but put Christ and his will first in everything you do.

Herein would I live; herein would I die; hereon would I dwell in my thoughts and affections; to the withering and consumption of all the painted beauties of this world, unto the crucifying all things here below, until they become unto me a dead and deformed thing, no way meet for affectionate embraces.

The more quickly we loosen our grip on the things of the world the more firmly we can take hold of the things of eternity.

The Christian is the most contented man in the world, but he is the least contented with the world. He is like a traveler in an inn, perfectly satisfied with the inn and its accommodation, considering it as an inn, but putting quite out of all consideration the idea of making it his home.

You may have occasion to possess or use material things, but the secret of life lies in never missing them.

A man ought to live in this world like a lotus leaf, which grows in water but is never moistened by water; so a man ought to live in the world - his heart to God and his hands to work.

The goods of this world are most dear to me, but much dearer are peace of mind and my own honor.

somehow one must love the world without being worldly.

He who lives wisely to himself and his own heart looks at the busy world through the loopholes of retreat, and does not want to mingle in the fray.

Let us make our hearts as big as an ocean, to go beyond all the trifles of the world and see it only as a picture. We can then enjoy the world without being in any way affected by it.

A pure heart is one that is unencumbered, unworried, uncommitted and which does not want its own way about anything but which, rather, is submerged in the loving will of God.

When you release your expectations that the world should fulfill you, your disappointments vanish.

For the Christian, all is not hopeless unless his affections are centered on the things of this world.

Strive to see God in all things without exception. Do not smother yourself...If you start smothering yourself with a host of cares and longings and wishes ... you will be disabling yourself from serving God with all your heart.

true weanedness from the world don't consist in being beat off from the world by the affliction of it, but a being drawn off by the sight of something better.

Win or lose, we achieve nothing in the world that we understand [...]' 'But then the world does not matter.' 'Indeed it does not [...] It is good to understand that.

God doesn’t want to take your money. He just doesn’t want your money to take you.

Just study Buddhism. Don't follow the sentiments of the world.